(Above: I love, love, love this photo of "the boys" replicating the cover of the Beatles album, "Abbey Road." BUT, BUT, BUT, California style baby!! Check out the lush green palm tree on the right and Baywatch style San Diego County Lifeguard truck in the background on the left. California Dreamin'!! Rudy Garcia-Tolson suggested that for this photo shoot, the models had to all be double-leg amputees!! Bam, he made it happen!! From left to right. Cody McCasland, Jake Frank, Blake Leeper, Roderick Urise Sewell Jr. and Rudy Garcia-Tolson. This was photographed using half of the crosswalk (zebra-crossing as they say across the pond,) because some little sold-out event, known as the San Diego Triathlon Challenge was taking place. hehee!! )

(Above: WOW. Huge turn-out to the sold-out

San Diego Triathlon Challenge.It sells out every year.)

(Above: Kathleen McCartney, y'up, THE Kathleen McCartney who put the Kona Ironman World Championship on the map. She thought that she was in 2nd place, however, her rival Julie Moss collapsed just a few yards short of the finish line, making her

the Winner. Lesson learned: Show up and finish strong. There's always some magic at the end.

(Above: Photo-shoot in progress!!Nick Ekbatani and Rudy Garcia-Tolson take a

selfies with a GoPro.)

(Above: Almost there.)

(Above: Cameron said "I'm the only one with a Spiderman wetsuit!! Booyah!)

(Above: And "yes" those boots are Converse if you were asking!!Woot woot. Stylish Haven!!)

(Above: Nick, don't forget anything.)

(Above: Hooray, hooray, the champion!!Cody McCasland raising his hand in Victory. His father, Mike McCaslandon the left unzipping his Xterra Wetsuit. The guy in green is a volunteer helping athletes out of the water, as well as onto the staircase leading up the Cove.)

(Above: Type in "no excuses" into Google Search and

you'll find Cody!! That's how I found this picture.ps This isn't my photo and I can't find the photographer to give him/her credit.)

(Above: "Are you Shiggy the photographer?" "Yes." "Would you mind taking a photo of us to send back home."

Hands me a smart-phone.

"What's your name?" "I'm Kevin and this is my wife Celeste.""Nice to meet you."(I took photographs of Celeste Cocoran earlier.

Celeste was one of the survivors at the Boston Marathon bombing.)

We then start talking about Boston. About how I attended Boston University and lived in Alston, just down the street from Mick Jagger!!!"Mick Jagger, lived in Alston????""Whoops!! I meant, what's his name from Aerosmith."

"Steve Tyler." "I'm sorry, I'm on 1.5 hours of sleep. The song

'I've got the moves like Jagger" was stuck in my head.'""Why?"

"Because earlier we replicated the Abbey Road album cover

and when I asked Cody if he knew the Beatles,

Cody's dad Mike McCasland

said, "no, how would he know the Beatles? That's too long ago. Cody's only 12."

And then he added,"Cody, does know the song, "I've got the moves like Jagger."

"So Kevin, how do you know my name."

"It's written on your back pack. SHIGGY.""Ohhhhhhh"

(Let's out a sigh.......I thought that I was famous and that Kevin had recognized me.....alas, it's from my back pack.)

And how did I remember Kevin's name you might ask?Kevin looks like Kevin McHale and Kevin McHale

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds
could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and
again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but
who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at
the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who
at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so
that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat."